A 70-year-old woman was killed while two labourers were injured when a dilapidated building in Loni town of this district collapsed on Saturday due to incessant rains, police said. The two-and-a-half-storeyed building located in Vijay Vihar colony of Tronica city of Loni town housed a screen printing press on the ground floor, they said. Senior Superintendent of Police Vaibhav Krishna told that the house was rented out to Bihar resident Suresh, who was running the printing press.

The front portion of the house started sagging Saturday morning and soon after the entire building collapsed, he said. There were eight persons in the house and three of them were rescued immediately by police with the help of locals, he added. The injured were rushed to GTB hospital in Delhi's Shahdara where doctors declared Kaushalya, mother of the printing press owner, brought dead, the SSP said. The building, allegedly constructed "illegally" in 100 square yards, was in ramshackle condition and the rain water poured into its foundation, due to which it collapsed. When the ceiling plaster fell down, the workers -- Jitendra (19) and Karan (18)-- and Suresh's wife Sanjoo (36) and their son Sonu (17) rushed out of the building.